scrobitulationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

scrobitulation (countable and uncountable, plural scrobitulations)

1. (botany, zoology) The condition or quality of being scrobiculate.
   • 1995, John H Shergold, Osvaldo Bordonaro, Eladio Liñán, “Late Cambrian Agnostoid Trilobites from Argentina”, in Palaeontology, volume 38, page 244:

     ...laterally compressed cephalon, mostly effaced, showing weak scrobiculation; same locality...

2. A pattern or arrangement of small shallow depressions on a surface.
   • 1903, Edgar A. Smith, “Descriptions of New Species of Land Shells from Central Africa”, in Journal of Conchology, volume 10, page 315:

     The remarkable keel-like liration within the outer wall of the body-whorl, indicated exteriorly by a scrobiculation running parallel with the suture, distinguishes this species from its allies.